Einfeldia

Einfeldia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Chironomidae
Subfamily: Chironominae
Tribe: Chironomini
Genus: Einfeldia
Keiffer
Synonyms[1]
  • Benthalia Lipina, 1939
  • Enfeldia

Einfeldia is a genus of midges in the family Chironomidae. There are at least 20 described species in Einfeldia, found in North America, Europe, and Asia.[2][1][3]

Species

These 20 species belong to the genus Einfeldia:[1][4]

  • Einfeldia aberlencii Moubayed & Langton, 2025
  • Einfeldia atitlanensis Sublette & Sasa, 1994
  • Einfeldia austini Beck & Beck, 1970
  • Einfeldia australiensis (Freeman) Freeman
  • Einfeldia carbonaria (Meigen, 1804)
  • Einfeldia dissidens (Walker, 1856)
  • Einfeldia dissita Aleksandrov, 1984
  • Einfeldia longipes (Staeger, 1839)
  • Einfeldia loripes (Guha & Chaudhuri, 1981)
  • Einfeldia mendax (Storå, 1936)
  • Einfeldia natchitocheae (Sublette, 1964)
  • Einfeldia nojiriprima Sasa, 1991
  • Einfeldia ocellata Hashimoto, 1985
  • Einfeldia pagana (Meigen), 1838)
  • Einfeldia palaearctica Ashe, 1991
  • Einfeldia pectoralis Kieffer, 1924
  • Einfeldia pritiensis Signh & Rawal, 2016
  • Einfeldia sasai Yamamoto & Yamamoto, 2018
  • Einfeldia storai (Goetghebuer & Lenz, 1954)
  • Einfeldia wiedemanni (Goetghebuer, 1931)

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Catalogue of Life, Einfeldia Keiffer". Retrieved 2026-06-25.
  2. ↑ "BugGuide.net, Einfeldia genus Information". Retrieved 2026-06-25.
  3. ↑ Evenhuis, N.L.; Pape, T. (2026). "Systema Dipterorum". doi:10.48580/d3bz. Retrieved 2026-06-20.
  4. ↑ Cranston, Peter S.; Martin, Jon; Mulder, Monica; Spies, Martin (31 August 2016). "Clarification of Einfeldia Kieffer, 1922 (Diptera: Chironomidae) with E. australiensis (Freeman, 1961), comb. n. based on immature stages". Zootaxa. 4158 (4). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4158.4.3. hdl:1885/217286.